Chapter 6: *Alex's Point of View*

For the next couple of days Nate and I got to talking a lot more. I found out that he played guitar and that he had type 1 diabetes. He got out of me the stuff about Justin leaving and the whole back story on what is going on with my mom leaving us. I began to trust him more and more everyday. I spent a lot of time with him. He started sitting with Mitchie, Harper and I. And soon after that Shane, Jason and Sharpay did too. It was good to see Sharpay away from Hannah and Tess. And Mitchie wasn't complaining that Shane sat next to her everyday. My life became a little bit better. Being at school with all my friends made me forget about what I happening at home with my dad. It was making me happier. And plus with Nate and I working on the Literature project together I made me see my father less. Which made me even happier. Well I was really happy until this happened.

"Hey Alex." Nate said walking over to my locker.

"Hey Nate. What's up?" I asked as I shut my locker and turned to look at him.

"Do you think we could work on the project at your house today instead of at mine. My house is having work done to it and we can't really go in the house until like 8 or 9 tonight." Nate said as my smile dropped off my face. My house. Where my psycho father is. The place where he is always just sitting around and waiting for the right time to come up and hit me.

"Um, I don't know. Um, well..." I said not really knowing what to say. I mean Mitchie didn't even come over to my house because she knew about my father. But its either let Nate come over and we just stay up in my room for a while and then at about 7 or whatever time my dad brings out the liquor and then he leaves. "Um. Maybe. I don't really know what my father will say but maybe we can." I said giving him a fake smile.

"Okay. So right after school we will walk to your house." Nate said walking away.

"Yeah, but we have to wait for Max after school okay." I yelled after him. I turned back around to my locker and slammed my head into the locker. Then Mitchie walked over to me.

"Your gonna give yourself a headache if you don't stop that." She said getting into her locker.

"I have a good reason for doing this. Nate is coming over to MY house after school today." I said slamming my head into the locker again.

"What?! Why is he coming over to your house?" Mitchie said in a shocked tone. "I don't even come over to your house."

"He said we can't go over to his house today so we have to go over to my house." I said sounding depressed.

"Aww. Sweetie. I feel so sorry for you. I know how you don't like people coming over. But it will be okay. Your dad won't do anything to him. Plus, with Max being around he wouldn't try anything." Mitchie said trying to comfort me. It wasn't really working. I mean, my dad could get drunk and not know that anyone was with me and then he could come up and beat me and Nate.

"Yeah, we will see about that." I said walking off to class.

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The school day went by fast which made me really sad. I didn't really want to go to home. But unfortunately I had to. And Nate had to come too. I never want people over at our house because of well, my dad. He never really wants people to come over either. So I never get to invite people over, while Max can have friends over but will never invite them over because of dad.

So Nate and I waited outside for Max. We just stood around his car and talked for a little bit. I was really worried about what my father was going to say when we get home. I guess Nate could tell I was worried about something.

"What wrong?" Nate asked me, he could tell that something was up with me.

"Oh, nothing. I'm just worried about Max. He normally doesn't take this long." I said, it wasn't completely lying to him. Because I was wondering where Max was.

"Okay. He will probably be walking out to find us anytime soon." Nate told me as we still just stood around waiting for him.

Okay so I wasn't really wanting Max to come out of the school that soon but I had to make Nate believe that I did. So I kept asking him if he saw Max or if he could go inside and find him. I was a good actress so he believed that I was actually worried about my little brother, which I was. But I didn't mind him taking a long time. Max was probably finding out something from some of his friends and they are just talking by there lockers.

Max finally walked out of the school after about ten minutes. "Max, what took you so long? We have to get home so Nate and I can work on our project." I said to him as we got into the car.

"Sorry, Alex. Me and my friends were working on this song." Max said as he sat in the backseat of Nate's car.

"Please don't let it be the second verse of that song you were working on earlier." I said remembering the dirty canary song.

"Yup, we finally have it. Do you want to hear it?" Max asked getting ready to sing it.

"No thank you Max." I said quickly so he wouldn't sing it.

"Are you talking about that Dirty Canary song that is going through the seventh grade?" Nate asked laughing.

"Yeah, do you want to hear it?" Max asked excited that someone had heard about his song.

"No thanks. But I didn't know that you wrote it." Nate said laughing a little more.

"Yup. Me and my friends all came up with it after school one day." Max said proudly.

"Nice. The whole school has heard about it. I once heard Oliver Oken singing it while walking down the hall." Nate said still laughing.

"Oh, yes, it oh so funny." I said sarcastically. "Can we just get home?" I asked getting tired of hearing all of this.

"Sure. We're almost to your house anyways." Nate said as we just sat in silence for a little while. We finally got to the house and Max jumped out of the car while Nate and I slowly got out of the car.

"Alex, hurry up. I wanna see mom before she goes to work." Max said waiting for me at the door.

"Hold on, Max. I have to get my backpack out of the car. Because unlike all you seventh graders us eleventh graders have to actually do homework." I said grabbing my backpack and walking up to the door and unlocking it.

Max ran into the house and straight to our mother who was sitting at the kitchen table. While Nate and I walked in slowly. Since he had never been here before he really didn't know what to expect. We walked in and we stopped at the kitchen.

"Hey, mom. Um, Nate and I are going to be up in my room working on our literature project. So since I most likely won't see you until tomorrow. Bye, and I love you." I said walking over to her and giving her a big hug.

"Bye, sweetie and hi Nate." My mom said as I pulled out of the hug.

"Hi, Mrs. Russo." Nate said while he waited for me to come back to where he was. And then we walked up to my room.

"Well, this is my room." I said as I opened up my door. My room wasn't as messy as it normally is.

"Wow. Its really, not clean." Nate said as he walked into my room.

"Well, I never really have time to clean it." I said walking around my room checking for anything embarrassing. When I looked around, I saw that nothing that could possibly be embarrassing, I sat down on my bed and opened up the book to the chapter we are on. "Okay, so we have to do a project over chapter 20." I said as we started working on the project.

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We got done with the project at about 7:30. After that I said goodbye to Nate and he went home. I was sitting in my room. I was putting all my books back into my backpack when my father walked into the room.

"Who was the boy who just left?" my father asked me as he walked into my room.

"He is Nate. He is my project partner in literature. We were doing a project for it. We just got finished with it." I said as I hung my backpack on my door.

"Well, next time tell me so I don't wonder why there are strange boys coming down my stairs from my teenage daughters room." my father said getting mad.

"Whatever." I said walking past him. I felt him grab my arm and pull me over to him.

"Don't you dare talk to me like that." my father said tightening his grip on my arm.

"Daddy, please let go of my arm." I said as I felt the grip tighten even more. "Please daddy, let go of my arm. Your gonna break it." I said starting to cry a little bit.

"I don't care if I break your little arm. I just want you to respect me more." He said as he tightened his grip even more than that. Then suddenly I felt the bone in my arm snap. I even heard it. All I remember after that was me screaming and then I don't remember anything else.

*Max's Point of View*

I was sitting in my room when I heard Alex scream. Then I heard her door slam shut. I knew my father had done something to her but I didn't know what. I knew it had something to do with Nate being over here today. He never like Alex to have friends over and when she did, it never ended well for her. He always did something to punish her but I never knew what. I just always heard her crying.

I walked down the hallway to her room and opened up her door slowly. I saw her laying on the floor. She was passed out. As soon as I saw her just laying there I knew I had to do something to help her out. She was always covering for all the stuff I do. So I should help her out for once in my life.

I walked downstairs to make sure my dad was passed out or to see if he had went to be yet. It really didn't surprise me when I saw my father passed out on the couch. I crept slowly back up the stairs. I knew that if he knew I was awake he would be mad. So I walked as silently as I could back upstairs to Alex's room. I looked around her room to find her cell phone. I knew that there was only one person that I could call that would come here as soon as I called. I just had to find his number on her phone.

As soon as I found her cell phone I went through all her numbers. It wasn't that hard to find his since she didn't have that many numbers in her phone. I dialed it and he answered it on the second ring. "Hello?" he said.

"Hey Nate, its Max. There is something wrong with Alex and I can't seem to wake her up. I need your help and I think that we might have to take her to the hospital." I said to him and then all I heard before he hung up was. "I'm on my way."

I knew I could count on him to help us out. After what he told me after school yesterday.

(Flashback)

"Hey Nate. You said you wanted to talk to me about something?" Max asked as him and Nate sat down outside the school.

"Um, yeah. Um. Do you know if your sister likes me?" Nate asked as kinda nervously.

"What? Um. Why do you even ask?" Max asked kind of confused.

"Well, I kinda like your sister." Nate said as he just looked down.

"Wow. Guys normally don't like Alex. Um, I'm not really sure. She doesn't really tell me these kinds of things. Why don't you ask Mitchie or get Shane to ask Mitchie. I mean Shane could talk Mitchie into doing anything and I know for sure that he could get if Alex likes you or not out of Mitchie. But I personally think she might. I mean she hasn't been as happy as she is now since before Justin left and when our mom didn't have to work nights." Max said.

"Oh, okay. Thanks Max." Nate said getting up. "We should probably get out to the car. Alex is most likely waiting on us."

(End of flashback)

It took Nate about five minutes to get to our house. He didn't really have to knock because I was looking for him out of Alex's window. So as soon as he got to our house I dragged him up to Alex's room. "She is just laying on her floor. I'm guessing she passed out." I told him as we walked into her room.

"Do you know what she was doing earlier? How could she just pass out?" Nate asked in a worried tone.

"I don't really know. All I heard was a scream and then I walked down here to check on her." I told him as I tried to wake Alex up.

"Alex. Alex. Please wake up Alex." Nate said starting to shake her a little bit. "Please Alex wake up." he said as I saw Alex move a little bit. I finally saw her eyes open after a few minutes.

"Max. Nate. Why are you guys here?" Alex asked sounding like she was in pain.

"Max called me and told me that he couldn't wake you up so I came down here." Nate said in a gentle voice. I knew that he really cared for my sister.

"Oh, well, um. I think I broke my arm. Okay I don't think I know. I heard it snap and then I don't really remember anything else." Alex said trying not to move so much.

"Okay, so Max and I will take you to the hospital because I noticed that your dad was asleep on the couch and I don't feel like waking him up since he scares me a little bit." Nate said as he gently lifted Alex out of her floor.

We walked downstairs and out to his car when he placed Alex gently into the car and then gently buckled her in being careful and not touching her arm. Then he walked around and got into the drivers side and drove Alex and I to the hospital.

"So Alex how did you even do all of this?" Nate asked while he was driving.

"Well, um. Well." Alex said and then with a sigh she said, "Well my dad did all of this. He came into my room after you left and he did this. He was mad because he doesn't like people being over at the house and he got so mad he broke my arm."

I sat there in silence as I just watched the two of them. Nate turned and looked at her and he had a shocked expression on his face. Like he couldn't believe that our father would do that. Then suddenly Alex just started crying.

"Please don't tell anyone. No one can know. Only Mitchie and Max know about all of this so please Nate don't tell anyone and please don't stop being my friend just because of what my father does to me." Alex said with tears running down her face.

"I will never leave you alone Alex. I would never do something like that. I care to much about you do actually do that to you." Nate said grabbing her left hand trying to comfort her as best as he could as he was driving.

We finally got to the hospital. As soon as Nate stopped the car he opened up his door and walked around the car to open up the door for Alex. She had managed to unbuckle the seatbelt with her good arm but he got to her door before she would open up the door. Then he helped her out of the car and then he grabbed her and gave her a hug. And then he wiped away the tears that were still falling.

Then he said, "Its okay Alex. Just please stop crying. Please. I'll always be here for you. Just please don't cry. I can't seeing you cry."

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